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16920 david1law@...
davidsadvent... Send Email
May 7, 2007
12:17 pm
Hi Helene: Here's a link to an interesting encyclopedia article regarding the CUMANS (KUNOK in Hungarian) _http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cumans_...
16919 helene cincebeaux
helenezx Send Email
May 7, 2007
11:53 am
Thanks Michael! Intrigued by the Cumani people. Dr. Tony Sutherland of Jednota told me that they were also called the Plavci people and the various places...
16918 Michael Mojher
mgmojher Send Email
May 7, 2007
3:50 am
Helene, In the 1200's a people called the Cumani joined forces with the Hungarian Empire to make a stand against Genghis Khan. Genghis Khan died before...
16917 Janet Kozlay
kozlay Send Email
May 6, 2007
11:29 pm
The Ottoman Empire extended over much of Hungary for 150 years or so, but there were continuous wars that constantly shifted the borders. Read Gardonyi's...
16916 helene cincebeaux
helenezx Send Email
May 6, 2007
10:40 pm
Have you seen Karel Plicka's photograph of women in Levice - they look totally oriental - maybe it was the earlier incursion of Tatars that casued this However...
16915 Michael Mojher
mgmojher Send Email
May 6, 2007
8:24 pm
An article in Spectacular Slovakia said in 1663 the Ottoman's controlled Nita, Nove Zamky and Levice, only for one year. ... From: helene cincebeaux To:...
16914 amiak27 Send Email May 6, 2007
7:11 pm
Bob, I did a quick Google search using their "images" function (above the search bar) and came up with http://historicaltextarchive.com/hungary/hutor1.gif ...
16913 helene cincebeaux
helenezx Send Email
May 6, 2007
6:26 pm
Interesting - i read somewhere that they came up the rivers into Moravia and Slovakia - would be curious to know which rivers and how far up - some were in ...
16912 Michael Mojher
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May 6, 2007
5:16 pm
Bob, I didn't find a detailed map. From the Historical Atlas of Central Europe: "The Ottoman sphere in Central Europe was basically divided into two categories...
16911 konekta@...
vbohinc Send Email
May 6, 2007
3:53 pm
No Turks there. They took only the southern belt of present Slovakia. Vladimir _____ From: SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com [mailto:SLOVAK-ROOTS@yahoogroups.com]...
16910 fernbrough Send Email May 6, 2007
3:21 pm
Are there any maps that show the extent the Ottoman Empire extended in current day eastern Slovakia in the 1600's? I am specifically interested in seeing a...
16909 SRK
krizansr Send Email
May 6, 2007
7:25 am
CECH & SLOVAK AMERICAN GENEALOGY SOCIETY of ILLINOIS General Meeting ~ May 19th @ 1 pm "Flight of the Falcon - The American Sokol Performance Team in Prague" ...
16908 Karen C
karens_roots Send Email
May 5, 2007
4:25 pm
Thanks to all that have sent me information on list and off. I have been working the past few days trying to determine the number of days we'll be in the...
16907 sparky271953 Send Email May 3, 2007
10:09 pm
I just got a call from my local FHC that one of the films I ordered in mid April is in! Hope this bodes well for those of you waiting for films. Stephanie B....
16906 pdbennett_52 Send Email Apr 27, 2007
3:31 am
... Rich, thanks for this confirmation! Your map reference sounds like it is indeed the one being referred to, although I can't be certain until I receive...
16905 Juraj Cisarik
genealogyslo... Send Email
Apr 26, 2007
8:32 pm
hello, here is a link of schematizmus of the village Rakovec nad Ondavou: http://www.cisarik.com/MINISCHEMATIZMUS-prq.htm chronology of reverends in the...
16904 Frank R. Plichta
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Apr 26, 2007
8:02 pm
I still think the following is your best bet in Zemplin: There is a village Vel'ke&#39; Ras^kovce in Zemplin. In each of the following period it was known as: 1808...
16903 david1law@...
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Apr 26, 2007
7:15 pm
Hi Phil: Just a little clarification regarding place name suffixes, the -OCZ suffix is Hungarian, and the -OVEC is Slovak. Best regards, David ...
16902 Rich Custer
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Apr 26, 2007
7:02 pm
Well, now this becomes somewhat clearer. Michael Juhasz of the Greek Catholic Union was absolutely born in Rakovec nad Ondavou in Zemplen County, not Velykyj...
16901 pdbennett_52 Send Email Apr 26, 2007
6:42 pm
... Yes, I had also found Nagy Ra'ko'cz in the far northeast corner of the 1910 map of Ugocsa Megye after Juraj's original post about the Ukraine location. I...
16900 johnqadam Send Email Apr 26, 2007
1:11 pm
... see the right top corner of the map, there is N.Rakocz <<< I agree that Nagy Rakocz shows up in Ugocsa Megye. That raises the question of where the...
16899 Juraj Cisarik
genealogyslo... Send Email
Apr 26, 2007
6:34 am
This village is on: http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/ugocsa.jpg see the right top corner of the map, there is N.Rakocz Juraj names of villages are on my...
16898 josefina
josefa.h@... Send Email
Apr 26, 2007
6:07 am
PLEASE _ my EMAIL -no post office [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
16897 ckjgo1 Send Email Apr 25, 2007
10:22 pm
Does any one in Troy New York or Los Angeles have a Machunka Surname? A Janos Machunka and his wife Katelin came from the same small town as my Sargavy...
16896 johnqadam Send Email Apr 25, 2007
10:03 pm
... How do you reconcile that with Zemplen Megye? Where in Ukraine? Can you point it out on the 1910 map at http://lazarus.elte.hu/hun/maps/1910/zemplen.jpg...
16895 genealogyslovakia
genealogyslo... Send Email
Apr 25, 2007
9:31 pm
Velky Rakovec is in Ukraine! Rakovec nad ondavou is a wrong way of searching. Juraj see my website - www.cisarik.com ... possible ... have ... the...
16894 pdbennett_52 Send Email Apr 25, 2007
7:29 pm
Thanks to all who replied to my post! At least the field of possible villages seems to be narrowed down to 2 or perhaps 3 candidates. I have already ordered...
16893 helene cincebeaux
helenezx Send Email
Apr 24, 2007
9:42 pm
HI Checked the Slovak Pride data base and found 11 Yuhas listings one is actually from Rakovec na Ond. Also found one Kraly listed - from Ruske Zemplin. get...
16892 johnqadam Send Email Apr 24, 2007
9:33 pm
Based upon current phone listings, which by themselves prove nothing, I would bet on the more northern location. That implies Rakovec nad Ondavou. Good luck....
16891 johnqadam Send Email Apr 24, 2007
9:22 pm
... Hungary. <<< On the map, you have the following possibilities in the former Zemplen Megye = county: Velké Raškovce, Slovakia; formerly Nagy ráska,...
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